Shortening Reload Motion Time in Call of Duty 4 COD4

When you run out of ammo and are forced to reload your weapon in Call of Duty 4 you leave yourself totally open to enemy fire with absolutely no means to protect yourself. For this reason you obviously want to spend as little time as possible reloading. One way to do this in Call of Duty is by equipping the Sleight of Hand perk. But below I have a better way that is totally legal and won’t take up your 2nd perk slot. This won’t completely turn your reload time to zero or speed it up as much as Sleight as hand would, but it will help you reload faster in Call of Duty 4.

When you reload your weapon you may have noticed that there is a little bit of extraneous time after you have finished reloading the weapon when player continues messing around with it. This extra reload action does nothing and wastes valuable time. This method works in Hardcore Call of Duty matches, but it is easiest to learn in a normal match where the bullets left in a clip are shown. Pay careful attention to that indicator in the bottom right hand corner which shows how many rounds you have left in the clip(image at right). What you want to do is fire a few rounds and reload your weapon just like you normally would. Wait for that indicator to show that your magazine has been replenished. The second that happens press sprint, fire your weapon or aim down your sights to stop that extra reload motion. Most people look at the motion of the players hand and assume the reload has finished when the hands stop moving. Waiting for hands instead of looking at the indicator to happen wastes roughly half a second.

After you have mastered it using the indicator you can switch over to the more difficult Hardcore matches. In Hardcore Call of Duty matches you have to use the instincts you acquired earlier to time when you can halt the reload motion, there is not hard and fast rule. Here you have to be careful of halting the reload motion to early, if you do your weapon won’t be reload at all and you will have to restart the reload motion all over.

This may not seem like it would make a big difference but Call of Duty is a game of inches and milliseconds, and every single one can make the difference between life and death.